I learned that a hardwood table is insufficient as a working surface for clay :o
On a more serious note, I learned that the Celtic Ogam has much more to do with words and letters than it does with tree associations (as is the popular notion).
That's not necessarily true. There is plenty of evidence that certain cultures that were polytheistic had overlaps with other cultures (the Greeks and Romans is one of the most obvious). The big three monotheistic religions do share some common traits, but they couldn't be morphed into one...
You do know that the word "Tarot" referred to a set of playing cards invented in Europe first before it referred only to a fortune telling deck? It even says so on the site. You obviously haven't read it very clearly.
Some people see only what they want to.
You should go to a library anyway...
Show me pictures of some playing cards from the 14th century or before, then we can talk.
As I've said several times already, Tarocchi cards were created for the game Tarocchi around 1445, and were not the first set of playing cards. Fortune telling picture cards, the deck on which most modern...
It would be nice if the military would provide some sort of cultural relations training, or at least encourage their soldiers to have some sort of multicultural values.